The <span>American Revolution was a radical break with the past </span>in the sense that no colony had ever overthrown its colonizing power before, and independence was considered almost impossible. It preserved the status quo in that the Americans actually adopted a form of government that was very similar to the British.
Well most of the concepts in these documents were prevalent in previous society's. Representative democracy in Athens. Basic inalienable rights was in the English Bill of Rights. But a big change was the checks and balances of government. i.e how the president can veto congress, the Supreme Court can overturn a veto, and Congress can impeach Supreme Court judges.
The answer is C) <span>an English monarch and the Catholic pope.
King Henry VIII resented that the pope did not authorize him to remarry as many times as he pleased, which compounded other political differences between England and the Catholic Church. </span>
